PSYC 223 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Thought Suppression

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 223
• Professor: Sarah Etezadi

Document Summary

Systematic efforts to direct thoughts, feelings and actions towards achieving goals. It is the process of managing the one"s ongoing effort to accomplish a goal. The better we are at self-regulating, the more likely we are at achieving our goals. It involves the capacity to carry out the full goal setting process on one"s own. Forethought (goal-setting and strategic planning) willpower performance (engagement in the task, beings to receive feedback) feedback self-reflection (feedback from performance, keeping track of performance, comparing your performance to your objectives) Self-monitoring is a self-observational process in which the person keeps track of the quality of their performance; self-evaluation is a judgement process in which the person compares their performance with the hoped-for goal state. Gains in self-regulatory competence occur within a social learning process and at an observational level in which a novice in a domain observes the behaviors from an expert model.